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The Shadowstone Affair
Date	Year 4?
Location	Beta system
Result	Decisive Falleen victory ISD Shadowstone captured
Belligerents
Falleen Federation Rebel Alliance	Galactic Empire
Commanders and Leaders
King Eldrik Kuraine† Lord Commander Squall Chitose ??? Keir Santage	rank? Siather Det'aan Dark Lord Adric Simms Emperor Greyson Uebles
Strength
Casualties and Losses
Xarius Tylger† (traitor) Doug the Battledroid†

Shadowstone
Class	Capital
Type	Imperial Star Destroyer
Modifications
Type	Upgraded Hyperspeed Upgraded Sublight
History
Date of Manufacture	Unknown
Affiliation	Alex Tylger (Previous Owner) Roan Axios
Events	The Shadowstone Affair

WORK-IN-PROGRESS... Everything on this page is in flux...

The Shadowstone Affair [...], also known as Operation Shadowstone [...]

[...] is an Imperial Star Destroyer once famously captured by Keir Santage, Finn Setanta and Squall Chitose who were working in the employment of King Eldrik Kuraine of the Falleen Federation. A lengthy battle was fought to seize the ship chiefly through the attackers bringing aboard large amounts of Battle Droids under their command, and fighting the Imperial stormtroopers aboard the ship.

Notable incidents in this battle included the wookiee Ralgarrch squeezing into a turbo-lift maintenance shaft to chase the more nimble Siather during her attempts at escape, Keir Santage accidentally tossing an extra grenade into a fray resulting in damage to his own battle droids, the death of Doug the Battledroid, and the baking of cookies in the mess hall after the battle was concluded by Adam A Flynn. Keir Santage also managed to rescue an injured female Imperial officer from a bacta tank, however it is unclear what happened to her after she escaped with him. Towards the end of the battle, the betrayal of Xarius Tylger was revealed. Xarius's droids were equipped with slave commands by Kuraine, and he took direct control to of them to attack Xarius. Tylger was wounded, but was able to initiate the command codes to the bombs he had smuggled aboard to destroy the ship. Squall Chitose was nearby and saved the ship by disarming the bombs and shooting Tylger in the face.

Santage presented the ship to King Kuraine, who then turned and gifted the vessel to Hapan officer Alex Tylger. It is rumored that Roan Axios was gifted the ship by King Alex. As a result of the capture of the Shadowstone, the Galactic Empire attacked the Fallen Federation's stronghold at Beta.

Raiding partyyy

• Keir Santage
• Finn Setanta
• Squall Chitose
• Ralgarrch
• Bruce Spear
• Adam A Flynn
• Thrax Mincoul
• Metuki Ryuujin
• Darian Taldoshar
• Gailen
• Jace Meridan
• Amon Khan
• Eric Adams
• Mark Hornet
• Kirek
• Delta 02
• Edwacop Wiwem
• Airoria Celestian, supporting role
• Asarya'katr, supporting role
• Avatar Voidrunner
• Tazam Azam, supporting role flying Y-Wing cover outside
• Xarius Tylger, later killed by his own battle droids
• Jennos Ackbar, supporting role

Imperial defenders

• Siather Detaan (docked via personal ship and escaped via Force wormhole)
• Adric Simms, a.k.a. Darth Knyte (entered/departed via Force wormhole)
• Greyson Uebles, a.k.a. Darth Cypher (entered/departed via Force wormhole)

Other personnel

• Vir Calder, defecting Imperial Moff and an accomplice of Kuraine
• Hovstad Stockmann, defecting Falleen Federation member... a Gamorrean
• Draco Creed, an enthusiastic young Sith who was accidentally left out of the entire operation by Imperial High Command
• "Doug the Battledroid," an NPC droid which Keir wrote an entire story about

To be rewritten

More crap

• Tazam Azam's old biography - http://web.archive.org/web/20030331024636/http://pub19.ezboard.com/froleplayingcentrefrm139.showMessage?topicID=4.topic
• Siather role-plays as a male? - http://web.archive.org/web/20010619190907/http://pub19.ezboard.com/froleplayingcentrefrm14.showMessage?topicID=307.topic

Siather

Siather [part 1]

From the cockpit of her YT-510 Retaliation, Siather "Raptor" Detaan glimpsed tractor beams latching onto an Imperial Star Destroyer bearing the identification transponder of the Shadowstone. There were a number of ships surrounding the ISD, yet no actions aside from the tractor beams were happening. More strangely, no distress call was being sent.

The YT-510 Retaliation slipped closer to the ISD Shadowstone amid enemy ships of all shapes and sizes. The ISD was firmly locked in a tractor beam of the nearby Libra battle station. The Gand pilot, Siather Detaan, took a quick account of some of the ships present. Unaware of Calder's defection and the earlier theft of the Shadowstone, Siather was puzzled why the Shadowstone was out in the middle of nowhere. She couldn't understand why was it surrounded and, more importantly, why the vessel hadn't put up any sort of fight. She deduced there had to be more to this situation than she could discern.

Siather decided she would board the vessel and determine what was going on. Using the ship computer on her YT-510 Retaliation, she transmitted codes that would allow her to dock without incident or an attack by security personnel. She considered a voice transmission to the massive Star Destroyer but decided against it deciding it best to merely land and keep an element of surprise, even a loyal crew needed to be surprised once in awhile.

Her YT-510 slipped through the screen of starfighters and capital ships swarming around the ISD. She cruised at about three quarters of its total speed so as not to draw attention. Siather focused intently on slipping past these ships and closer to the ISD. Siather saw the ISD and realized it was being attacked. Because of the large amount of ships in the vicinity, it took considerable skill to pilot through them without detection.

She neared the docking bay. She was able to hack open the docking bay doors, and sent out a distress call to the Empire. She flew inside with her vessel. Pursued by enemy ships into the hangar, the ISD fired it's forward turbolasers at her pursuers, dealing massive amounts of damage to their shields. Siather set down her YT-510 in the docking bay and powered the quick freighter down to a standby mode quickly moving out of the cockpit and into the rear section. She looks at the two waiting droids both in a recharge mode hooked up to the ships main power generator.

Siather quickly disconnected them from the ship and activated the droids, one a Super Battle Droid and the other a Destroyer Droid. She smacked a panel to her right and the wall opens up revealing a whole array of equipment and weapons. Siather grabbed the stormtrooper armor and strapped it on. She grabbed a breath mask and the stormtrooper helmet. She tucked the mask into the helmet and pulled both on. She grabbed a heavy belt from the rack and strapped it on. Arrayed in front of her were many weapons of all types, she opened up the holsters on her belt and stuffed a pair of DL-18 into one set, a pair of TB-1a in another, and a pair of scout blasters.

Siather grabbed a heavy backpack and pulled it on grabbing a variety of items from the tray in front of her. She stuffed it into the pack and onto her belt. She looked at the larger weapons and grinned to herself. She grabbed the T-21 Heavy Repeating Blaster and inspected it quickly before putting it in her pack and grabbing an E-11 Blaster Rifle off the racks checking it also. After equipping herself, she ordered the droids to the top of the docking ramp smacking the panel to lower it both droids having orders to fire if fired upon.

Siather looked down the ramp and ordered the droids forward. Bringing her E-11 up to her side, she slowly followed them down. As she reached the bottom of the ramp she scanned the docking bay visually and ordered the droids to do the same but hold fire. She ordered the Destroyer Droid to power up it's shields and continued into the bay, scanning carefully for anything hostile. She entered the docking bay and realized that a large group of men and droids had just left. The place was in disarray. It was quite possible that someone stayed behind to keep an eye out. Siather looked at the mess left behind and stared at it for a moment trying to judge, based on the damage how many there had been. She quickly made her way to the end of the docking bay. The droids followed her every step. She scanned the bay with her weapon ready in search of anyone who might be observing as well as a terminal which she could access the main computer. She ordered the Super Battle droid to begin patrolling the docking bay and the Destroyer droid to cover her as she did so.

Siather quickly realized a rather sizable force had just emptied the area. Based on metal scars on the floor and blaster marks, she realized that it was battle droids of some make or model. They must have just passed through shortly before as the turbolift is currently going up. Siather spotted the scomp access and grinned. She made her way over to it quickly and ordered the Destroyer droid to cover her. The Super Battle Droid returned also to cover her. She stepped up to it, pulled out her code cylinders, and plugged them into it. She searched the archives for access to the internal security systems including cameras and automated defenses looking to bring them online.

Siather looked over the security screen. She saw masses of battle droids moving towards the bridge. She quickly tapped commands into her access terminal attempting to close and seal the blast door to the bridge. She quickly glanced over at the turbolift which was apparently coming back down. Although security cameras indicated the lift was empty, she ordered her droids to cover it just in case. She continued tapping commands into the access terminal and glanced at the Super Battle Droid judging it quickly comparing it to the droids she sees on the screen. She ordered it to plug into the access terminal to receive new programming instructions.

Siather started attempting to setup the ships internal comm system in order to transmit at a low frequency to the Super Battle Droid while at the same time disconnecting some cables on the droids left leg joint to make it appear damaged as she waited for the lift to get down. She noticed via the security camera that the bridge was under fire. The Imperial defector, Moff Vir Calder, had many battle droids and was winning that fight over a meager amount of stormtroopers. Observing via the camera, Siather noticed that there was a large group of men, women, and droids alike in the main docking bay. They were stealing sentinel shuttles. Apparently, the Imperials on one of the shuttles sacrificed themselves in an explosion that destroyed many droids and injured Prince Jace Meridan.

She also noticed another group of men, women, aliens, and droids were heading to engineering. She realized that if that raiding party succeeded in the area, her mission would be a total failure. She also noticed via the camera that another man was doing something very suspicious. It seemed like he was planting explosives. Using the terminal, Siather succeeded in closing and locking the blast doors to all entrances and exits to the bridge. Siather frowned as she witnessed the teams make their way to the engineering bay and tapped in commands to seal all access to that area as well. She saw the empty lift arrive and tapped in commands to the Droid that established a comm connection with it through the ships internal comm system. She pulled up a map of the internal structure of the ship and stepped onto the lift ordering both droids to do the same.

Before she went on the turbolift, she noticed more events unfold via the security cameras. An Imperial prisoner had been executed. A red-headed female crewman had surrendered but a commissioned officer of the Falleen military named Mark Hornet killed the young woman with a blaster shot. Siather successfully closed all doors leading to Engineering. She discovered that someone else was closing doors on the ship, but she did not know who. Apparently other Imperials were doing their best to keep the enemy at bay. Before she logged off from the computer terminal, a status report informed her that Reactor One (of two) was functioning at 75%. Cooling systems were damaged in an explosion. The report continued stating that, if the cooling systems failed, the reactor would jettison and Reactor Two would activated. The droids followed her orders and boarded the turbolift alongside her. They traveled to the middle deck.

Siather rode the lift up and ordered both droids to power up to full combat readiness. She leveled her E-11 on the door, waiting to possibly shoot whatever may be beyond the door. Siather pulled herself to the left wall of the lift. She ordered the Destroyer Droid forward so any fire that came through would strike it's shields. She ordered it to be ready to fire. The turbolift doors opened and immediately she saw no one, but heard plenty of clamor down the corridor as there were literally swarms of droids and Federation troops. She heard them trying to break through various doors and such.

Siather quickly flipped the lift switch to the "Hold" setting. She ordered the droids to remain where they were. She quickly ducked out of the lift. She glanced in both directions as she moved quickly into the room she knew to the crew quarters. She peeked out to her left, trying to determine what might be between her and weapons control or flight control. She kept as silent as possible as she moved keeping her E-11 ready to fire. She wished the stormtrooper armor wasn't white.

Siather [part 2]

[The muted alert lights began flashing, and Siather could hear the sound of the klaxons baying faintly outside the room.]

Siather ducked in, but she had this weird sense that something was about to go wrong. To the left of the turbolift, she heard several droids repeatedly say, "Kill Xarius." Seconds later, several hundred laser shots could be heard and a resounding thud. Siather realized that, unless she moved quickly, she would be surrounded by the enemy boarding party. She heard footsteps of Federation troops and battle droids heading in her direction.

Siather quickly retreated to the turbolift and slammed the "Stop Lift" button with the back of her fist. She repeatedly slammed her hand against the button to go down to the Detention Level while keeping her blaster at eye-level and ready to fire at any potential targets. As she reached the turbolift, blaster fire arced towards her. Just as the lift door hissed shut, white foam was sprayed from the fire-retardant system and everything was covered in white foam. [She took a gush of thick, white foam full in the face. The turbolift was ankle-deep in foam, and spurts of anti-incendiary gas made it nearly impossible to see. The racket of sirens and warning hooters was deafening.] The foam was slightly irritating to her eyes which burned and itched. Luckily, the rest of her body was covered in armor. Her droids were covered as well.

The turbolift stopped at the Detention Center. There were some Imperials on the ground, most of whom were dead. A few however, were wounded or unconscious. Two prisoners were alive and well. However, they were restrained by stun cuffs and drugged heavily. Siather glanced into the Detention Center and pulled the "Hold Lift" switch. She ordered the droids to exit the lift. Following them, she checked the Imperial corpses for any equipment she might utilize as well as ensuring the prisoners were still secured in their holding cells. Siather then moved to the security console in the room and checked for scomp access. She instructed the droids to cover the turbolift as she worked.

Siather verified the two prisoners were secure. The prisoners didn't seem to notice her presence as they groaned from the constant excruciating pain of the electrified stun cuffs. Siather found a scomp access link, but the access level was not of a higher authority than the earlier aft hangar one. Meanwhile, her droids covered the turbolift. As she began testing her access into the scomp link, the turbolift door pinged as if it had been remotely summoned. Fortunately, as Siather had jammed the "Hold Lift" button, the lift remained stationary. [Obviously, Falleen party called elevator, but it didn't work.]

Siather realized that, quite soon, she would not have an escape route. Siather used the scomp access to attempt to take control over the turbolift. Her intent was to release the lock and send the lift plummeting to the bottom of the shaft. She checked the status of the security cameras and realized that, by this time, the enemy had likely sliced into such a low-level computer system. Using the terminal, Siather attempted to feed false imagery into the security cameras in order to deceive them.

She accessed current feeds and noticed she could see herself at the detention center. Knowing this, she realized the enemy boarding party likewise knew her location. Siather attempts to move the turbolift failed. The lift went to where it is called. There was no other way in or out. The unconscious Imperials were now awake, while the wounded Imperials had expired. The wounded Imperials were unconscious. One of the prisoners woke up and screamed gibberish, which woke the other prisoner from his catatonic state. He too began screaming nonsense.

Siather's live feed from the security cameras was suddenly cut by [someone in the enemy]. Siather growled aloud in anger and then glanced at the people who had regained consciousness. "Get into that armor and arm yourselves with those E-11s," She ordered. She tossed her own E-11 to the odd man out and proceeded to the turbolift door attempting to pull it open. "Get over here and help me," Siather yelled at the newly-equipped troopers.

The five men strapped on the trooper armor and helped her with opening the door. She successfully opened the door and saw smooth sides of a long pieces of magnetized metal on the left and the right. Across from her was an access ladder going up and down. She peered down and saw the shaft was a long way down.

[The turbolift shaft went down many stories, more than Siather expected; the lift car was far below in the dimness. There were access rungs on one side.] Siather noticed the lights snapped off and the room was plummeted into near darkness. It was difficult to see. Whoever had taken away her access to the computer terminal also had cut power to the overhead lights. Siather assessed the ladder. She made a successful jump across the yawning shaft to the metal ladder. The ladder was intended for use to exit stalled turbolifts. Siather turned her attention to the troopers with her and drew a single TB-1a ionization blaster from her belt. She tossed the weapon to the nearest trooper and drew another for herself. She glanced at them, "Follow my lead."

The stormtrooper nodded. Siather aimed her blaster up the shaft and fired. The trooper did likewise. She retrieved the blasters from him and holstered them both looking at the troopers and then her droids. She set the droids to move to the end of the cell block and fire at the doors on the cells of the two rampaging prisoners as soon as they received the order from her comm. The non-human Director of ISB [Siather was Direct of the Imperial Security Bureau?] then focused on the armored men before taking a running jump at the ladder in the shaft and indicating they should do the same.

She successfully hurdled the distance and caught onto the ladder. The troopers began firing the ion weapons and their E-11s at the oncoming turbolift. The lift slowed by their laser fire, but didn't stop. The lift halted and the Falleen raiding party fired upon the troopers. Siather heard many shots and the screams of troopers as they fell.

Suddenly, she received a comm message from an encrypted ISB channel. "Sith One for ISB One. We have arrived. Meet us at the reactor bay for pickup." She realized that it will be very difficult to reach the reactor core. Mentally reviewing the Star Destroyer's layout in her head, she believed the location of Uebles in relation to her was on a lower deck, likely past Security Checkpoint Alpha in the Solar Ionization Reactor Room.

Siather sighed as the troopers fell to their own incompetence. She climbed down the turbolift shaft as quickly as she could. She searched for an exit from the shaft as well as attempting to pry the shaft door open while receiving the message. She keyed her comm to that frequency and encryption algorithm, "ISB One to Sith One... Understood. En-route now."

Siather then quickly keyed her comm to connect to her two droids in order to check their status and to get a sense of what they were 'looking' at. Her message went through as she travel down the shaft. She tried to key in her droids frequency, but received no response. She assumed the droids were now disabled or destroyed. She reached the next lift and found a manual ramp. She pressed the open button next to the ladder. The lift opened and, out of the corner of her eye, she glimpsed nineteen Super Battle Droids primed for combat.

Siather grabbed the hold lift switch and pulled it out before, keying her comm back to the secure ISB channel whispering into it: "ISB One to Sith One, I have a group of droids between myself and your location. I'm going to engage them but I will need assistance."

In an inspired moment of improvisation, Siather drew her TB-1a and set it to overload before tossing it out towards the enemy super battle droids. She drew her T-21 and stepped out just enough to open fire on the droid formation. The blast door opened a bit. The overloaded ion weapon exploded, immediately destroying two Super Battle Droids and injuring another two. Siather was immediately hit by two shots, which were absorbed by her armor, while another volley of shots went off wildly. She made a quick shot and clipped one of the injured droids. The droids took the hit and kept standing, but began malfunctioning.

Half of the remaining droids advanced on her, while the other half were busy doing something else. [What?] Siather took aim at the nearest droid and fired before ducking into the lift upon hearing Darth Knyte.

Uebles and Simms

[Emperor Uebles and his bodyguard Adric Simms decided to personally intervene in the Shadowstone Affair by using a Force wormhole to portal to the ISD Shadowstone's lower deck and attempted to sabotage the ship by planting explosives on the reactor core. Although they succeeded in rescuing Siather and in detonating their explosives, the ship was not destroyed and the vessel was successfully captured by the Falleen Federation. Their presence was seemingly never noticed by the Falleen raiding party.]

The large room with the high ceiling was nearly empty and plunged in darkness. The only light source came from a holo-projector that displayed the interior of what appeared to be a ship or station [Libra battlestation]. Two shadowy figures, Emperor Greyson Uebles and Adric Simms (a.k.a. "Darth Knyte"), were clad in matte black armor with featureless helmets and partially covered by ebony robes stood in the middle of the chamber. They had checked their equipment and now ended their preparations with a quiet moment of meditation. The act of meditation itself at least was quiet, something that could not be said about the mantras an images that filled their heads — blood, pain and fury mdash; that was the fuel that powered the Dark Side and these two sentient beings standing there had long ago united their souls with the Dark Side.

Finally they nodded to each other, nothing needed to be said anymore. It was time to act. One of them reached out with his mind, travelling the unseen paths only the initiates of the Force knew existed. His mind grabbed the very fabric of space time, pulling it towards himself and ripping it open. This was the way of the Sith mdash; Control, Domination, Force. Before them a swirling vortex of energy appeared like a gaping wound in the universe. A numbing cascade of red and purple light that didn't illuminate but only deepened the writhing shadows around them. Strange energy currents crackled like chain lightning across the floor, walls, and ceiling, even over their armor. Sparks and electric discharges followed their steps.

Without hesitation, the two Sith figures entered through the Force wormhole to instantly cover a distance that crossed a galaxy with only one step. They materialized on the ISD Shadowstone's lower deck in front of its main reactor. [Draco Creed, an impulsive young Sith who belatedly arrived to the meditation chamber was sadly left behind by the two older Sith when they entered the wormhole.] Immediately one of them activated his wrist-comlink using the encrypted Imperial Security Bureau (ISB) frequency and transmitted a coded message: "Sith One for ISB One. We have arrived. Meet us at the reactor bay for pickup."

As soon as he stepped out of the Force vortex, Adric Simms a.k.a. "Darth Knyte" ignited his hand-built lightsaber and its red energy beam bathed the surrounding area in a crimson glow. Simms prepared for retaliation from the enemy and stood closely near Uebles, flanking the Emperor.

Immediately upon their entry, the two Sith destroyed all holo-cameras in the lower deck with a simple thought. The blast doors behind them were closed, magnetically sealed, and locked. They sensed a Light Jedi on-board somewhere and another Light Jedi presence that was very powerful. They also felt that there was an extremely powerful presence but the presence itself was not physical, but more ethereal.

They noticed ten super battle droids begin to activate that were guarding the reactor core. Simms used Force push on the droids and moved over to the blast door to temporarily disable the mechanism so that no one could entered without blasting their way through. Invisible under his helmet, Uebles raised an eyebrow as he sensed the presence of an unknown Light Jedi nearby on another deck. His mission had just became more interesting than he had anticipated, and a cruel smile crossed his visage as he felt the hatred for the accursed Jedi wash over him. Casually igniting his double-bladed lightsaber, Uebles performed two sweeping cuts at two of the nearest droids as Simms hurled others off their feet. Glancing around, Uebles quickly spotted the right places to plant his explosive charges.

Observing Simms moving towards the blast doors, Uebles made a quick halting gesture: "Stop. Leave the door open for the moment, so that Siather Det'aan has a chance to reach us." "As you wish," acknowledged Simms. Uebles paused as he awaited Siather's response on his comlink and then he growled again at his trusted companion, "Simms, you heard it. More tin cans outside the door. Please give Siather a hand so that she can break through. I'll handle the heaps of junks in here."

Dropping his well-cushioned satchel with the explosives, Uebles positioned himself to take care of the remaining droids as quickly as possible. He deftly annihilated two droids with his saber in one sweeping blow. The droids fell to the ground hard enough to knock three of them offline; this left five remaining on the same lower deck.

Getting up on unsteady metal feet, the droids shot at Uebles, but the emperor easily deflected four of their laser bolts and redirected them towards his assailants. The deflected bolts blew apart another two droids. Uebles made one last swing and destroyed another two droids. He could hear fighting outside the reactor core's chamber.

Simms nodded. He unlocked the blast door using an electronic lock breaker while still gripping his lightsaber firmly in another hand. He moved towards the droids that are between Siather and him. At this moment, Simms hissed into his wrist-comlink: "Siather, if you want to live, duck and get out of the way--"

Stepping over piles of smoking battle droids, Uebles spied the last operational droid remaining in the reactor core chamber. Without effort, he struck a sweeping blow, beheaded the hapless droid, and then glanced around. Uebles saw Simms opening the blast door and heard the noise of combat filter through his helmet's audio sensors. When he saw another band of droids outside the reactor core area, he growled with irritation, the rage that only just died down surging once more. Without thinking, Uebles raised his hand and used the Force to violently ram one droid into another. He had to compel himself to stop. He knew Simms would handle this next batch of droids quickly enough; meanwhile, he had other things to do. Uebles looked at his gauntled hands and realized they were trembling slightly from his anger. Breathing deeply he composed himself and then he was ready again. With steady hands, Uebles opened his satchel and started planting the first of the explosives on the Shadowstone's reactor core.

The remaining droids halted their approach towards Siather and focused their attention towards the sudden appearance of Simms. The Sith assassin's rage exploded at the battle droids. He did not have time to play around with these mechanical gnats. In a black fury, Simms ran towards the droids and began slashing at them left and right while deflecting any laser shots fired back at their source.

With the last of the droids destroyed and Siather now safely in his party, Simms returned to the reactor core's chamber. He knew what needed to be done next. While Uebles planted the explosives, Simms concentrated deeply and moved his hand in a circular arcane motion. The bridge of the ISD "Byden's Death" appeared in his mind. He knew it was located nearby in a system neighboring the Beta system. Simms concentrated harder. The shape of the reactor chamber seemed to be bending, folding in half. An energy vortex formed in front of Simms as electrical currents ringed the the vortex in circular motions. The vortex opened up and, through this unholy portal, the bridge of the ISD "Byden's Death" hazily appeared. Simms motioned to Emperor Uebles that there wasn't much time. Uebles and Siather had to hurry or else Simms would enter the wormhole alone. Simms was beginning to be involuntarily drawn into the swirling vortex. He desperately concentrated to keep it open. He fed on his rage to continue keeping control of the vast amount of dark energy. Finally, a reluctant Siather entered the vortex, followed by Emperor Uebles who had set the last of the explosive charges on the reactor core with a twenty-second delay. Simms then entered the vortex and the vortex vanished.

The three Imperials escaped the ISD "Shadowstone" via the Force wormhole and materialized on the bridge of ISD "Byden's Death," a vessel located outside of the Beta system. Twenty seconds later, .... Boom! .... the reactor core of the ISD Shadowstone exploded. However, there was no way for Uebles, Simms, and Siather to determine if the ship itself was also destroyed [which it was not]. After arriving on the ISD "Byden's Death," Simms immediately entered a Lambda shuttle and departed for Coruscant. At the same time, he focused his energy on aggressive feelings and hate to regenerate his force pool.

Random crap

Imperial Archives

During the following era that Stanov was named the Provost General, the IMS Shadowstone, a Victory-class Star Destroyer, in the 2nd Assault Fleet was stolen by Imperials that broke off from the Empire. The loss of the VSD caused Naval High Command to strip the commander of the 2AF's position, and Stanov was promoted to Captain and became the Fleet Commander of the 2nd Assault Fleet. The 2nd Assault Fleet was called in to action against the Black Sun and Stanov lead the 2nd Assault Fleet in to the Battle of Beta, along with other forces of the Imperium's might - including a large force of Sith.

GNS Articles

• http://www.swcombine.com/community/news/gnsarchive.php?display=2&postID=4034&category=20
• http://www.swcombine.com/community/news/gnsarchive.php?display=2&postID=23416&category=20
• http://www.swcombine.com/community/news/gnsarchive.php?display=2&postID=27267&category=20

Interview with Dreighton

In order for Calder to take over the "Shadowstone," Calder used large numbers of battle droids to subdue the loyal Imperial crew. The battle droids were actually purchased in preparation for the Battle of Beta and this is mostly how the Empire got wind of Calder's defection as he had to apply for the funds with the Imperial throne. As Calder desired to buy Imperial-only assets, he had to run this past Uebles in order to obtain authorization. Calder made flimsy excuses on why he needed the battle droids and the stormtroopers he had asked for, but it was one of the signs that gave his intention to defect away to Imperial High Command. (Vodo was inactive at this point.)

Interview with Tholin

Jace Meridan and Tholin Dur'aak both participated in the capture of Shadowstone. Tholin Dur'aak was part of the space support fleet rather than the incursion party. Jace and Tholin had actually manufactured Moff Vir Calder's defection, although the capture of Shadowstone was purely of Kuraine's design. Their actions on the Shadowstone were an attempt to minimise FF casualties while sabotaging the attempt at capture - knowing it would be a severe escalation in the GE/FF conflict - something they wanted to avoid. Clearly this failed.

Messages by Squall

I think Jace put Vir in contact with Kuraine, and we did the rest. The actual battle plan was concocted by myself and Keir, essentially using the same boarding plan I had when we stole the Star Galleon earlier that year. As a note on the Battle of Beta, I wasn't too involved in the planning or execution of it. I was participating in a Red Scenario that would later become the Battle of Nar Shaddaa. After I escaped, I was trying to be let into the battle when they allowed reinforcements to arrive, but Kuraine died prior to that and the admin never let me make the job. I was slated to either take command of the ground forces or take command of one of the Libra's ancillary stations. I'm actually trying to get Kuraine's player to send me a bunch of his records, but he's having trouble finding them.

Kuraine scammed Venom out of the Xenon. At the time, Kuraine and Venom were probably the two richest characters in the game, and longtime rivals. After Kuraine died, the Xenon and Shadowstone went to me. I, like a goddamned fool, put the ships into faction inventory. (At the time, characters acquiring their old assets wasn't really an issue, as not very many characters had died at that point). Essentially, Kuraine's new character Drax, asked me to put the ships into Malebranche's inventory so he could use it. Then he sold them for like two hundred bucks or something. I was pissed. The Xenon was probably even more lethal than the Shadowstone, and its high number of ion weapons made it an awesome pirate ship. I'd give both the SB-1 and the Tetan to have it back.

Keir's Ode to His NPC "Doug"

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Doug the Battledroid was the martyr of the theft of the ISD Shadowstone. Given designation 009-42, he stood 42nd in line of Keir Santage's battle droids aboard the Libra Battlestation, while awaiting entry to the Star Destroyer. During the pitched battle, Doug was dressed in distinctly humanoid clothing. Doug lived at the DroidHaus where his wife and six children anxiously awaited his return back home. Despite his married status, there was always an aura of sexual tension between Doug and Keir.

There are 21 statues around the galaxy, erected to Doug's memory.

Turning quickly, and grabbing something off the nearest shelf, and tucking it out of view, Keir stepped to the door, and exited the storage room, reentering the hallway.

Reactivating the droids, he strode to the 42nd droid and took the parcel out from under his cape. "Here ya go" Keir grinned lopsided "Your very own set of informal clothing". Glancing at his chronometer to ensure he wasn't running *too* far behind the rest of the group, he quickly dressed the battledroid.

Stepping back again, he couldn't help but chuckle at the site of the droid's skeletal frame poking out from the sleeves and pants of the outfit, he looked absolutely ridiculous...but he could still fight, and that was all that mattered.

Throwing a hat over 009-42's head, he completed the image, and spoke again. "You'd better survive this fight Doug", he said, "You got a wife and 6 kids waiting for your safe return to the Droidhaus". The droid nodded its head "Roger, roger. Will survive impending battle". Keir laughed out loud, and punching the droid in the arm, caught himself, and returned to the front of the column. He held open the turbolift doors as his droids began filing in, still in tight formation around him. "Now remember, we'll have friendlies coming up behind us on the turbolifts, so our backs are safe, no firing behind our wall."

With that, Keir tapped Doug on the shoulder lightly "So far so good my man, see that you make it through, this is your baptism by fire". "Roger, roger" was the only reply he got. Keir rolled his eyes and muttered a quick prayer for dumb non-sentients. Pausing for a moment to take stock of their situation, he afforded a glance around him, the other turbolift was up now, and firing on the stormtroopers as well, behind him lay a couple dozen destroyed droids. With horror, Keir noticed Doug was among them.

Narrowing his eyes and gritting his teeth he turned back into the fray and bellowed "Nîn daged dhaer!" and shifting his rifle to his left hand, tore a proton grenade off his belt, and cocking the arm mechanism for the 4 second delay, rolled it straight into the confused mass of stormtroopers in the middle of the room, while around him, his droids continued firing into the mass of black and white. Keir prepared to open the door, and let his droids march in. Now remember he hissed at them Any lifeforms present in there are to be considered enemy, and shot immediately. They replied with a terse, standard unquieted "Roger, Roger". Keir shot them an angry look as though to admonish them for being too loud, and made a hushing gesture. "Oh and boys..." Keir reminded them, hand resting on the doorpad "This one's for Doug". He hated droids...he was used to fighting alongside living creatures, the silent killing machine that was a battledroid removed all sancticity from the murder of crewmen aboard a ship.

Doug was different, he wasn't like the rest of them, he didn't know why, he'd never felt that close to a droid before...but when his eyes first fell upon Doug's magically sparkling photoreceptors, something happened, there was an instant connection that couldn't be explained. Keir bit his lip, and held back the tears, he loved that droid...and he never had a chance to express his real feelings, Doug had died never knowing how much Keir had wanted to throw him down and shag him, right there on the Libra when they'd first met. Keir winced, these memories were distracting him, he mustn't lose sight of the mission that still wasn't completed, there would be plenty of time later to miss Doug, for now he had to get down to the Docking Ring that connected the Galforee to the Star Destroyer.

Keir and Ralgarrch Earn Falleen Citizenship

http://web.archive.org/web/20050819025639/http://www.swcfalleen.com/news/main.php FF welcomes new citizens ------ Tuesday, October 21 2003

Government officials today announced that two celebrity names were sworn in as Falleen Federation citizens.

The proceedings took place at the Supreme Court today, where Keir Santage and Ralgarrch swore fealty to Kuraine and the FF. They were soon pronounced as FF citizens by the Lord Chancellor of Justice, Ceud.

Posted by Jennin Firpol, Government News Today, at the Supreme Court.

Important Stuff

Moff Vir Calder

• Operation Shadowstone
• The Capture of the Imperial Star Destroyer Shadowstone and the Defection of Imperial Moff Vir Calder to the Falleen Federation
• Operation: Shadowstone (Squall successfully raided the ISD Shadowstone bridge, along with Keir Santage. Then Squall saved the entirety of the operation by killing Xarius Tylger and defusing the bombs Xarius set to sabotage the operation)
• Vir Calder was Director of Research and Development under Emperors Piett, Connel, Mccarthur and Charon, becoming Moff of Fakir Sector during his appointment to R&D.
• Possibility: Did Calder defect on Year 4 Day 118?
• Year 3 Day 143: Emperor Charon appointed Vir Calder as Moff of the Fakir Sector. Calder was later succeeded as Moff of the Fakir Sector by Krovikan Sengir.
• Siather "Raptor" Det'aan was a Gand female and the non-human Direct of the Imperial Security Bureau at the time of the Shadowstone Affair.
• An entire complement of TIE Bombers were stored aboard the Shadowstone and were later kept by the attackers as spoils of war.
• The space station from which the Falleen Federation boarded the Shadowstone was the Libra battlestation. Calder flew the ISD Shadowstone from Imperial space to the Falleen kingdom's stronghold of the Beta system. The Shadowstone was then tractored into the station and the Falleen boarding party then entered with a stream of battle droids which Calder had earlier purchased with Imperial funds.

Redo Table

Leadership (Ignore For Now)

Falleen, Rebel, and Mercenary Assault — Leadership
Eldrik Kuraine King Falleen Federation	Vir Calder Moff Imperial Defector	Squall Chitose ??? Falleen Boarding Party	Keir Santage ??? Falleen Boarding Party	Ralgarrch ??? Falleen Boarding Party	Tholin Dur'aak Prince Falleen Support Fleet	Avatar Voidrunner ??? Rebel Alliance

Imperial Defense — Leadership
Siather Detaan Director Imperial Security Bureau	Adric Simms Dark Jedi Master Sith Assassin	Greyson Uebles Emperor Galactic Empire	Jennifer Dreighton Executor Second-in-Command	Vodo Bonias Dark Jedi Master Strategic Architect	Black Lodge Grand Admiral Naval Commander	Durand Somerville Brigadier General Army Commander

Awards

Many accolades and awards were granted in the Falleen Federation after the success of Operation: Shadowstone. Among them, Squall Chitose was granted the title of Warlord and elevated to the rank of Lord Commander of the Falleen Military. Zechs Darius was elevated to Lord Commander of the Falleen Civil Defense Force. Chitose's then-wife, Asarya'katr von Ismay, was granted the title of Duchess of Harravon.

All Falleen Federation participants were awarded the Operation: Shadowstone medal.

See also

Individuals

• Eldrik Kuraine
• Vodo Bonias
• Tholin Dur'aak
• Black Lodge
• Jace Meridan

Events

• The Shadowstone Affair
• Battle of Berchest
• Galactic Hostage Crisis
• Black Sun Crisis
• Battle of Kashyyyk

Organizations

• Galactic Empire
• Falleen Federation
• Rebel Alliance
• Blue Sabre Transportation
• Loronar Security

Technology

• Libra Battle Station
• Victory Star Destroyer I
• Alpha-class Xg-1 Star Wing
• Super Star Destroyer
• Dreadnaught-class Heavy Cruiser

Locations

• Beta system
• Cloud City
• Falleen Prime
• Hapes Cluster
• Kiffex